Rene MacColl on RED CHINA
These
staggering changes ..
Peking
TAGGERING changes, most of Then for the better, have taken ' inside Red Chinn in the ruly see I was last here
in August 1964.
Three big mures hit me
right away:
(az bending devolopments ori 找 vnst sale:
The disappearance
(b)
uf
or maringle warlike touches at all the airports: (e) the setting up of an official
Russin Chinese Travel burenu, on the Tatum,st model, with a Conglet and P6wont sta il'.
The change was apparent as soon as 1 walked across the internatiound bridge between the border of Hongkong Colony at Lown and the Red Chinese frontier just at Shumehun,
Back
1954
$214
British Borrespondents arriving in Pek-
1 y 25
theciulely
13.
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because The Chinese sand its vots were only vor Hungkung.
anet we would, therefore,
have
to refarin 1 London and start That took three JERZ tool thet
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SO SORRY, SAID THE CUSTOMS
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From
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1956.
'Russian uncle
MacColl'-well
I ask you!
plorer
Inni the right-hostar, 2,000-ndle thg at to Peking, I could see belowe me a rally colossal
teding devek ument whori must have
R
entered DRATAN thiounds
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of the Communist Compass. From Eust Germuny Uzbekistan.
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A few stray British too, no! greatly
my tas.e. Includ- Mrs Williamson cf Canterbury, who rather wrecked my breakfast the other morning by Roto "IT indo a hymn of praise about "dear Dr Hewlett Johnson." who did a broadcast an Radio Peking.
"What about? Inquired. "Need you
ask?" she 10- joined. "Why---pence!" Wor
Also present is a Mr Carlrg. from Hampstead, educated at the Slade Schcol of Art, who brought to Peking an exhibition
of British visual art,"
of
the
Ju
Q
The signs
have airports. from un vanished
Before, Peking airfield was
lay patrolled armed carp. ballohon el tommy-gunners. At other airfields you saw ack-ack Pass outs high us ready for an shi trenches. instant take-off, anime dumps, troops, Gone, all Rune Today
Aut the INDEND the drive from the airport 11 Peking self, which takes about tlf on bota In August 1954 11 was through rural felds and 1 commented that the country- s.de persisted right tip to the very walls of Peking.
THE END OF OLD
PEKING
THE
BUT OHI THE
DRESSES
was
LIFE WITH ALLEN
AH, STOLEN CPA- LIMELIGHT!
66H
By GERALD ALLEN
Ow did the re- "In the bag Right up to pro- fessional standard," announced hearsal go 7"
asked.
Barnes, adding, right support,"
"Absolutely splendid, look at me. dear, but we're a bit short of members. I was dering if you-"
"If I get the with a nasty
In the midst of all this 4.9~ won- aurance, we were shocked
the
Ever since Molly Joined local dramatic pociety, I'd been on the alert for something the sort.
of
"I am not going to help with the lights, nor am I going 19 erect the scenery,” I announced shortly.
10
discover that the producer hcd doubts.
"It's the timing
that's wrong.' he complained (50 Molly tells me). "Everyone is too slow picking up eues. What's needed is a general speed up."
this Unfortunately, I missed remark—I was having a Joke with a rather pretty girl, who
the maid's part. was playing
else started racing Everyone
Jiko about
and fre-engines, after they'd all galloped off the I stage at the end of Act 1, year,"
loped on and announced "Dinner ls served."
"You're not likely to be ask ed, after the way you fused the lights and dropped a
hammer оп the vicar's foot at
the children's concert Molly replied tartly.
last
"Mere technical hliches. The "They must be half-way
way the vicar carried on, Jie
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was lucky not to be sufrocked through the second courge
now," said the producer bitterly.
Molly gave a demonstration of hor acting lechnique by suddenly adopting ♫ winning tone of voice,
"We thought it would
It wasn't necessary to make such a fuss, After all. It was be only a slight slip, and I'd put
nice if you played a teeny-weery good deal into my line, 60 03 parl," she said,
"Not me!"
to lead the audience into the belief that the dinner wis cioped. When I explained this,
"It's a very small part, but the fellow said that the play was big enough mystery without it needs a strong personality.
my adding 10 it. It's funny Someone mentioned your name, how irritable people
become
but. I heard Mr Barnes say you over trifle. The worst of it wouldn't be capable of it.**
was that Barnes had something
to crow about.
However, we all brightened up again, and overyone Bald. lead." " be all right on the night," as if they'd just invented line.
"What's Barnes got with it?" I asked.
10
da
"Ho's
the playing Molly answeröd absently.
"If Barnes can get, any can."
fool
"That's what I think,”
said
Molly, "Rehearsal on Thury-
day."
He
THE grumbling because the Chinese asked if it was all right to send Invitations for the ufficial
pening Lo British
O'Neill Minister
and other British legationers, and he told them yes.
Unfortunately. the legation
men
10
the
The great night arrived, and I stood in the wings, mouthing my three key lines, "Dinner served". "The police are here,
Sir Henry."
has arrived."
and "A telegram
he
they'd grasped the plot either. it, handing it to Barnes with a
The lighting was of the im- provised kind there were He play
for cables all over the place, ready -"Murder
to trip the actors as they went Dessert"----~w us one of those "whodunits, constructed to on and off the stage. Some idiot mystify the audience entirely, called "Don't forget the wire," The as I went on to announce din- 11 certainly mywifled me. rest of the cast all looked very nor. Naturally, I thought knowing, but I don't think meant the telegram, and grabbed dignified air. The great actor was shaken.
"What's this?" he stammered.
bere, "The police
Sir Bre Henry," "I stammered in pants.
refused
10 because E police, who formerly wore Corline's trip was sponsored by My part was that of the aged white and bawled instructions Communist "front" organisa-butler, who had to stagger on
through to motorists
crimson tj.
at odd moments, and announce MegaDNAWAZ, tow sport white "Too bad." fumed Carline. "Dinner is served" "The police tunes, blue trousers, and green- made us all lose face."
are here, Sir Henry," and so on. und banded Russian-style cops
I couldn't see where the need Keature in thouilled silence with
for a strong personality Cume baten
in.
Tiny
נתיויו
kleaming
The kbakl with golden epaulettas
FOREIGN DEVILS
thut Russian
When you consider the size of THEY tell you
that
the army and police force, this influence isn't really taking makes it just about one of the hold of the Chinese and biggrat clothing orders In the Chinese regard them basle - history
ally as they regard all outland-picked on me particularly, er dining room, l! What I haven't seen much of, ers-as "foreign devils," that is ticising every entrance I made, until 1 inquired cuttingly how is the brightening though.
his own butler behaved
1 WOM Barough the formalities. though were a diplomat The andling, bowing tourist agency That w A iny passport and money changed. Then
it Came
KIOW it has been transformed uniformed Customs offeer who actually
Bats. Hours. blocks upolug.sed for having to look muckels and Ministry bail:Bugs insie my bag'
four- 111 110
have FENCET th
Kreat TRAV hear train Journey Canton suburb It really is an astonish-
marvels
The contrad
Ankl. ang nehlevement
unlike guard kipt watidering through Rüssta, where so many
fest-class compartment, houts are left 10 festor hall- which (shared with an indone- finished behind sealfolding,
swathing san. diligently
fies this is Bulshed. fremember, mine
allowed เร here) or cleaning off every- thing in sight with a dump rag,
He hastened 流れる discomici the B. On the -like train loud- speaker at our request. Lunch? Preestry for the Anal gentlemen to bother to walk to
disins-caF. the
Food Was brought to us.
The menu said it was "frenk lutter," and It took me about
us long as it will probably take Jou to work that one out. But It wasn't at all bad.
fin
Now they
starting are Peking itself. The city known the China hands will Roon have ceased to exist. These "dien grey lanes" which were no typical of old Peking are crash- Ing apart in rubble, Big black of flats will soon soar.
Everywhere you see people
with a working
kind of in- No lounging on tense fervcity. the job around here. They are retarring the roads, widening the man streets, heaving bricks.
THEN
IT
A
Into
to
The curtain came down to a The rehearsals proceeded half-hearted spatter of applause smoothly except for some slity we'd certainly got the aud!- who thoe guessing. They must have from Barnes, behaviour wanted
to act everyone else's spent the first Interval wonder- He ing why the police were in the part as well as his OWL
and why they'd telegraphed their arrival.
Molly, who was helping of to say.
general factotum, tried to cheer the women's dresses. Here and Well, I con only report this
while i was walking Before he could think up a me up, and I set my teeth, re- there you see a girl wearing a morning
dis- solved to put all I know A big
good reply, the producer tatty version of a Western dress past
open-al nursery wan at first gratified covered that three of the cast the second act, determined but the overwhelming majority school
the tots came racing to hadn't yet arrived, and we went go over with a bang" as they still trudge around looking like when
into the next act, say, trights bollersuits.
the railings as I hove in eight straight
Gliding silently behind the They held
with a smiling Barnes got half his big scene off oficially spon- and greeted me
his chest before he found out guests, I was the perfect butler, sored exhibition of designs for ehorus of "Sutien Susul"
he was address- until the moment came for me 1 waved an acknowledgment, the character of women's fashions but few
been killed off 3 to take on the dessert. This time the girls seem to have taken the then asked my guide what they ing had
quarter-of-an-hour before. I nobody warned me about the hint. The form-clinging slashed were calling. "The children are
he felt it was a moral victory for wire and I really did go over skirt
Hongkong 13 not calling Russian uncle'. "
with a bang. What's more, half favoured here.
... returned.
Russian
the lights went out. bourgeois.
The hotel I am in is still with ask you!
point "delegations" from every
WAS
گوشه
Decadent
NOT
I
rtc.
I unch! MacColl
By the time the dress re hearsal came round, all the cast I were full of confidence.
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continuing "Incredible Cup Finals”
Arsenal,
an
LUCKY
(Continued on Page 19 CM. 3)
ARSENAL
by George Whiting
their put Arsenał one up in & Cup
The men of Huddersfield pro-
and yelled all kinds of
Alec blue murder the burden of their
Cllr Ball. blathering being that they had
not been ready for James's trée
RSENAL'S first Cup
then burgeoning Both teams foundered, and Lewis sought to grasp the offend- tain-to-be, plus possibly Final, in 1927...and under the managerial genius of pre-match plans collapsect into a ing ball to his chest-but, his left most magnificent forward line of Final.
Hebert Chapman, were led at mass of mediocrity as ill-judged heel slipping the ball went all time sprinter Joe Hulme, Arsenal's first Cup, inside-right by long logged. passes went astray, tackling under his left shoulder and to schemer David Jack, thrust-bust tested
"edg
getua in 1930.
Frantic efforis to Jack Lambert, Sooner or later, Charles Buchan, with Joe Hulme acquired
and full- wards goal, and whatever phase of foot. blazing trails down the right backs booted the ball high, wide retrieve it were unavailing and. James, and icicle
slowly, oh so slowly, the ball
I have called Bastin an icicle kick. But the swiftly taken ball you are talking about,
and the tag is justified in that advantage had been ronde per- you get round to the High-
could elude the glue-like Cup to Wales, countrymen, he
Was completely fectly legitimate where James's bury hot-shots -- even their 1956 form has been
from Bome way removed boiling point.
a
if
The in
wing-and with Welshman Dan and unhandsomely.
guarding London's goal The great Buchan, whenever rolled over the line to take the
against his fellow
but even
Poor Lewis what
a day that attentions of Hardy, sold im- Ferguson, the scorer of that Cliff Bartin turned out to bel
maculato dummies to get his nover-should have happened nerveless. A publican these days. questioning eyebrow had been Bastin was renowned among his answered by a wave from referco committed quielde he was coal, Arsenal's troubles in this, the line arving,
BUTTIC A team-mates as the only man in Tom Crew. first Cup Final, started early caught more
than once in on years later. when their coach got so en- off-side trap reminiscent of the McCracken days before Jam on the Bill
Wembley again
the
Ave
side who could, repeat, that
minutes later, every
the
King
had said as ho
present
A long pass
doubtful that For Cardiff, wing-helves THREE years paspid-and Ar- ed the team with their medal; but another long pues from
bley.
purely
All on edge
for the first and only history. Intruding personal memory, I recall end- Ing that lively evening singing Land Of My Fathers in wel
and Hardy made the
and
of his team-miles was near
traffic Tom Whittale's wonder-boys tangled in a live on in the Chapman-Allison North Circular Road that at one the off-side law was changed. Aradition that nerves were made time it seemed
Dastin it was, in quick-witted HUDDERSFIELD fought back, Denal were at Wembley again, for lesser men. Yet there was they would reach Wembley on Kenor
prostranged connivance with Psychological pep talks mast of cecasional akaways, in the final against Huddersfield
partner Jamca, who contrived James set centre-forward Lam- over a Final in which two time. teams were more confounded by forgotten, the Arsonal men posl. But, until 17 minutes from the Town. This time, to make sure Arenal's first goal and Arben speeding so martly down the
in threy were soothof-and not first Cup.
middle for gel No. 2 that none collywsbbies than when Cordin tively thered as they began to end, all we had seen was
pre-match music, beat Arsenal 1-9 in 1927-and dress in the coach and cerambled coherent football in a minor ker, savaged b
at Wem- unrelloved by goals,
half-back, enough to offer the custombry Joe Hulme took his own gramo A Huddersfield Then
standing not upon the order of back-siaps, 56. "Honest Jack," 'a, ao took the Cup out of and a inst-minole arrival
tragedy for Arsenal, phone and records. Xughte Ferguren," Cardiff's
his charging, ant James without comedians of parts, stood slocks contre-forward, look a pass from A gamo.of confused' loyalties Ceremony on the seat of the long stil med solemnly gave himself a throw-in, made as much ground for the mighty Chapman the "trade mark" pants that made a round of hand-clege. TN the dressing-room, Jazz tunes as an attendant Arsenal awara men who, having relied Hudders wee Alee the patron saint of con-
blared from & gramophone would permit, and shot from the field from serni-oblivion, was now temperary cartoonists. Save Ure Arsenal 2, Huddersfield 0-and a Scho siaurant-which I still
bicught along by a "thoughtful" edge of the penalty area. By co repping luscious fruit from his pun, no half-back ever made a what Londoner cated tuppence,
brett bloomer
in 1930, for the German Giraf groundsman; one player, still in means a blinder, but tentative revolutionary methods of High- bigger Cockney.
on instant,
James had Zeppelin that threw its shadow football, ranked into an ante- harmless-looking effort, the kind bury and a pa Cardit were inilit round the room to put the steadying in a goalkeeper from, the school On paper, no two teams had a placed the ball for the free kick over the some?
of fluence of his favourite pipe. XI could have stopped-or any bitter right to play is that 1930 and slabbed a swift short pas to magnificent half-back line Keonor (captain), Sloan, and Wind-up all roundland in none body else not playing in a nerve- final, Huddersfield, finalists two the walling Badin-all in one berine · the than in shot Cup: Final, bald Bill Hardy from Northurn-more pronounced
Down went on years carlier, had the great Roy'danny moveDIS
Dan Goodall nt right-back, and a calence lund: realised - what was blandthe last-mentioned the Arsenal's dutside left, Byd Hoar, dtest” wing-hall Over to bo For heaven's sake, don't give Lowl on his right knee, gathers nightwing complied of Alex going on. Basin returned, James N
sored by the selectors of Eng-ime the ball fee the first quarter ing the ball in the crook of his Jackson, Scotland gift to foot collected, and bingot the ball, Whiting talk of Newent?
controversial land possibly because of his of an axe sald Iloer somi- lok sam as he eyed the challenge bil, and Bob Kelly 13 cape for was in the back of them mund. Also fe-long allegiance to an “un- coriously to his team-mates ns of Davies, Fequeon and Irving, England, Areal, led by Town James, the braw litla boles fashionable club in the Wilder-they trolled out on to a perfect Cardinhada mon Beloging: ParkovatieightMahadea who candle moul" for everybody helped beat
plich on a perfect afternoon on his right hand agrori, the heples Eddie,, Hapmodan kong Troops but, rarely scored i bima und, the 1912
shink was not 120, bad for a
at
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